NIP-C7
======

Chats
-----

`draft` `optional`

A chat message is a `kind 9` event.

```json
{
  "kind": 9,
  "content": "GM",
  "tags": []
}
```

A reply to a `kind 9` is an additional `kind 9` which quotes the parent using a `q` tag.

```json
{
  "kind": 9,
  "content": "nostr:nevent1...\nyes",
  "tags": [
    ["q", <event-id>, <relay-url>, <pubkey>]
  ]
}
```

Clients that render a "chat view" as a stream of ordered events MUST only fetch `kind 9` events in order to prevent missing context across implementations. Other content types MAY be quoted within in a `kind 9` following [NIP 18](./18.md).